Peldon Rose
Famous for our
food & hospitality
If you appreciate fine dining,
traditional service and seasonal
ambience then you’ll love The
Peldon Rose – the famous Essex
Coaching Inn that has stood
majestically on the approach to
Mersea Island since the 15th century.

Our Restaurant
Dining with us is relaxed and affordable,
discover how we use the best locally
sourced fresh ingredients to create exciting
and different flavours. Our award-winning
restaurant offers exciting menus designed
by our experienced team of chefs and all
delivered by our welcoming staff.
Food served everyday.

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www.lacascada-restaurant.co.uk
La Cascada Restaurant & Grill is a truly authentic Mediterranean Restaurant with Spanish roots, set in four
lovely acres of Essex countryside. The restaurant is well-known in the Colchester area for its fine food, specialising
in Spanish & traditional English fayre with excellent service and a delightful relaxed dining experience.
La Cascada Restaurant & Grill have a passion for fine wine, boasting a selection which not only makes the wine
list an exciting feature for diners, but that allows special wine tasting evenings which are enthusiastically attended.
A spacious Tapas garden and lounge bar makes La Cascada Restaurant & Grill the ideal venue for those
planning a function, as well as for those looking to relax with a drink after a day at the office.
Open Mon-Sat; 12pm-3pm and 6pm-10pm for Tapas and à La Carte;
Sun 12-3.30pm with Traditional Sunday Roast from £8.50 and 5.30-9pm for Tapas and à La Carte.
La Cascada Restaurant & Grill hire out the use of the restaurant facilities for hosting celebratory & corporate
events or functions with you, please call 01206 864030 for more details, or to arrange an appointment.

Special Events
and Functions
Catered For
For further information,
menus and special events
please call 01206 864030
or visit

Sunday Lunch/Evening www.lacascada-restaurant.co.uk

Menu del dia
(set lunch menu
from £6.50)
Not available on Sundays
or with any other offer.

Restaurant 43, Great Bentley, Colchester
We shall be set for a fabulous summer once the weather sorts itself
out! With the Diamond Jubilee, Wimbledon and the Olympics,
the influx of tourists visiting the UK will be huge, as people support
these special events and tour around the region looking to soak up
all that is special about Britain ..! says Andy Mumford
Top of the list for many
tourists is the quaint
English village with
perhaps thoughts of Miss
Marple, village green
cricket, the local pub,
Pimms and sandwiches
with the crusts neatly
trimmed.
And traditional village
greens don't get much better
than Great Bentley, the largest
in England and situated just
north of Colchester. Sitting on
43 acres it has all the
trappings of a Miss Marple
thriller and is very pretty,
to boot.
As some of the regular
readers will know a good deal
of the projects we get involved

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in happen in a short space of
time, with completion within
a matter of weeks. Restaurant
43; or the Old Village Stores
as it once was; started life last
October when I received a
call from local builder, Mark
Moorcroft.
Mark had purchased this
delightful site; which overlooks
the village green; to convert
either to a house or a
restaurant. Mark and family
had no direct restaurant
experience and during their
research many people advised
them to keep their money in
the bank and forget the
restaurant trade, as it can be
both tough and pretty fickle.
But Mark was up for the
challenge so restaurant it was!

As a listed building and in
such a prominent position,
feeling within the community
was strong but from day one
the Moorcroft family embraced
the village, sharing both
physical plans and their vision

with the local community and
the name was chosen by
holding a local competition.
The building itself was
very run down and on my first
visit I thought, “Great
potential but where do you
start?” There was no floor to
speak of; timber was rotting
and ceilings falling down. The
old garage was to be the
kitchen so we needed to
visualise how it would look,
and try to plan the equipment
without having precise
dimensions. It was all to be a

work in progress as things
gradually evolved, and we also
needed to include a ventilation
system that would be
sympathetic to the local
environment; so we disguised
some silver trunking within a
mock chimney, which worked
a treat. Certainly before the
chimney was completed, the
silver trunking raised a few
local eyebrows!
I was then introduced to
Mark’s wife Dawn and their
elder daughter Scarlett, who
took over the interior design;

and beautifully too; using
quality fixtures and a sharp,
sleek design, to make your
dining experience very special.
The crockery, manufactured by
Dudson of Dtoke on Trent, also
happens to be the chosen
china for all of the VIP areas of
this year’s Olympics. Other
family members are involved
in the day-to-day running of
Restaurant 43, and in an
industry so dominated by
groups and chains, it's lovely
to see back-to-roots ethics in
a good, family-run business.

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We are the longest established Thai
Restaurant in Colchester Essex, Britain’s
oldest recorded town.
We pride ourselves on serving only the
best in truly authentic Thai dishes, all
freshly prepared and cooked from locally
sourced suppliers by our highly
experienced Bangkok-trained Thai chefs.
Thai 1 can be found just a
few hundred yards on the
right hand side travelling
up East Hill Colchester,
going towards the Town
and Castle Park. We
are located directly beside
the pedestrian crossing and offer
FREE parking to the rear of our
premises, with on-road parking
also available immediately in front
of the building.
Thai 1 restaurant is bright
and modern but still retains
that real feel of Thai decor,
our waitresses are both
informed and attentive to
your needs, offering
genuine Thai hospitality.

Our exceptionally good
value, low priced, authentic
Thai menu will make your
journey very much
worthwhile.
Alternatively, we offer our
Thai 1 take away menu for home
delivery anywhere within the
Colchester area, with FREE local
delivery for orders over £10.00.
Thai 1 restaurant is available to hire
for private functions and we
also offer an excellent
outside catering service.
Please feel free to call us on
01206 870770 and we’d be
happy to discuss with you.

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